re: #40 SanFranciscoZionist

Sadly, even today, a lot of ‘descent of Man’ pictures show evolution from a series of dark-skinned ancestors culminating in a white, Nordic-looking homo sapiens sapiens. When I taught sixth grade social studies, I really had to hunt to look for a picture of a dark-skinned Cro-Magnon. So there is racism, but it’s preexisting societal racism projected in an unscientific way onto the science, it’s not that there’s some inherent racism in the idea of evolution.

The whole idea of an evolutionary ladder, or some ascent from unevolved to evolved, is an egregious misunderstanding of evolution.